9. You sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the arms of orphans.
10. “That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,
11. or why it is so dark that you cannot see. and why a flood of water covers you.
12. “Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see the lofty stars how high they are?
13. Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does He judge through such thick darkness?
14. Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see, as He walks in the vault of heaven.’
15. Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?
16. They were snatched away before their time, their foundations washed away by a river.
17. They said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can Shaddai do to us?’
18. Yet He filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me!
19. The righteous see and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying,
20. ‘Surely our foes are cut off, and fire consumes their abundance.’
21. “Reconcile now with Him and have shalom— in this way prosperity will come to you.
22. Accept instruction from His mouth and store up His words in your heart.
23. If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; if you remove iniquity far from your tent
24. and throw your gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the wadis,